DeborahsLearningReflection

Activity 8 - Applied Practice in Context - Changes in my Practice Image 1 Well I have  made it! What a journey, so many speed bumps along the way,  when I put my hand up and said how keen I was to do the course I certainly did not fully understand what the course entailed. I was so lucky to be in a school with some inspiring e-learning masters, they tutored, encouraged, supported and challenged. They were so positive and excited for me to embark on the Mind Lab journey. Having 3 colleagues on the journey as well was helpful too, even if we didn't all attend the same face to face venues. there were opportunities to touch base easily when needed. Certainly once we went to distance learning and further school PLD, meetings, report writing et al began to surface they were the people whose incidental conversations kept me going. Thanks team. Moving in to a new school with some fabulous e-learning behind me and feeling competent, the confidence had taken a huge dive wi...

CROSSING BOUNDARIES AND CREATING CONNECTIONS..... Having to sit and reflect on how I would develop  my interdisciplinary connection map took much time to consider and design. As I used an Inquiry process to ponder the amazing people who have mentored, guided , supported and inspired me on the teaching journey, I have noticed how these personal/professional communities of practice that developed have then branched into many different forums of learning, exchanging ideas and knowledge with others pertaining to finding ways of supporting student learning outcomes. However it is not finite and they are still evolving. I believe from my reading and interpretation  of interdisciplinary practice that it is essentially the integration of ideas and principles from different disciplines, then synthesizing these together so that we create a more complete framework by which to practice by and hence  support student learning.  Inquiry learning appears to be indicative of...